Doug Engelbart designed a "Paradigm Map" to portray his radically different strategic approach for transforming the organization of the future. A paradigm is a mindset that shapes how we see the world. A paradigm that is outmoded
or slow to change can seriously limit an organization's or society's perception of risks or opportunities, or view of what's possible and how to proceed. Each tile on the map identifies a shift in thinking that will be needed for organizations and society at large to fully realize their potential in a future of rapidly increasing uncertainty, complexity, and urgency on a global scale.

The map in Engelbart's slidedeck is interactive. Clicking on a tile elicits highlighting, a summary slide, or detail slides for that topic. Since his Bootstrap strategy is relational, not linear, it helps to watch Doug presenting in multiple contexts for the interplay of concepts to become clear. See below to Watch Doug Presenting and access a generic Slidedeck.

CHM/Logitech Tribute
(6 min) Summarizing Doug's career, seminal achievements, and 'unfinished revolution'. Produced by the Computer History Museum and Logitech in 2013 in celebration of Doug's life's work.

NMC Fellows Tribute
(9 min) Vision overview from interview by the New Media Consortium in 2002, beginning with footage from the 1968 demo; no slides used but great coverage of the key topics; excellent intro to Doug's vision.

Visionaries of the Information Age
(20 min) Marc Doyle interviews Doug for this JCN Profiles episode profiling his vision past, present and future; leads with a brief intro and footage from the 1968 demo (skipped in this excerpt). Video Content: Intro | Collective IQ

1995 Bootstrap Seminar(Parts 1-2)
An informal half-day seminar presenting the Bootstrap "Paradigm Map" in depth in a small group format with special guests Bill Christopher and Chuck House
(NOTE: recording quality is poor, content is excellent). See companion booklet provided to participants, plus our 1995 Bootstrap Seminar home page for complete description, program, slides, readings, and index to video contents.

Engelbart's Colloquium 2000(Sessions 1-10)
Doug's most comprehensive symposium titled The Unfinished Revolution II covers the same topics in depth, with guest speakers from industry and the public sector discussing how the topics are relevant in their fields of expertise. See our Colloqium website for full program with links to session videos, illustrated transcripts, speakers bios, etc.

1992 Bootstrap Seminar(Sessions 1-12)
This three day management seminar titled Bootstrapping Organizations into the 21st Century predates the interactive paradigm map, but goes into much more detail on each of the topics covered by the map. See our 1992 Bootstrap Seminar home page for complete description, program, slides, readings, and index to video sessions.

Travel once around the map to traverse the vision highlights, and again to see vision and strategy in greater detail.

Click right-arrow to advance through the slideshow. There are four parts to the presentation:
Part 1 - basic map (Slide 2);
Part 2 - overview highlights series;
Part 3 - detail slides series
Part 4 - closing summary slide series. Icons in the top right corner are as follows: Lightning bolt returns you to Part 1 (Slide 2); [2] hotlinks to Part 2; [3] hotlinks to Part 3; [4] hotlinks to Part 4; Home hotlinks to the title page (Slide 1). On Slide 2: If viewing with animation, clicking on any tile animates that tile to accentuate the topic title. On all other map slides: Click any tile on the map to select that topic as follows: Click top of tile for highlights (that topic in Part 2), midsection for detail slide series (that topic in Part 3), bottom of tile for closing summary slide (that topic in Part 3) – from there, right and left arrow will advance from that point on the given series (highlights, detail, or closing summary). Historical Note: In the original presentation developed in Macromedia Director, Doug could switch modes using shortcut keys, and bookmark a slide before jumping away from it to easily return to it later.

Doug and Christina Engelbart are eternally grateful to David Gendron of Trillium Business Learning, Inc. who conceived, designed and produced this dynamic presentation in the early 1990s as a gift to Doug. Doug used this presentation format in most of his lectures and workshops since 1993. Originally programmed in Macromedia Director, it was later migrated to PowerPoint. As a tribute to Doug on his 80th birthday, David created this new rendition of the paradigm map.
The key concepts in this map were conceived by Doug in the 1950s and 1960s, and subsequently iterated and refined through the 1990s.

For more in-depth study, refer to the 2008 The Bootstrap Dialogs - raw footage from four half-days of filming Doug, Jeff Rulifson and Christina Engelbart discussing Doug's Bootstrap "Paradigm Map" in-depth among themselves. This is not a seminar, just a chance to walk through the material to capture the key concepts in greater detail than was possible in a typical seminar format.